Rope-a-dope the Administration The Republican Party is effective at campaigning and winning elections, but sucks at governing. For all the huffing and puffing on the campaign trail in 2016, the first Trump administration largely amounted to tax cuts for the wealthy, 500 miles of a border wall and a destructive pandemic gone viral. We now […]

President Donald Trump owes his re-election in part to some gains among working-class Latino voters who rolled the dice on a change in economic policy — but that change is likely to hit them worse than anyone else. There are all the cuts to vital programs and services Republicans plan, including “changes to Medicare, the […]

Ken discusses Trump’s tariffs and the response of Canada in this reaction video and podcast.

Do the Democrats have a plan to take back power in Washington back from Republicans in two years? Democrats, have said they’ll oppose President-elect Donald Trump and his allies when their values collide but are open to cooperation on a range of issues, including immigration, federal spending and entitlements. The strategy marks a turnaround from […]

The US House decided to strip funding for 9/11 health care program The NYS city’s firefighter unions slammed a decision by the House to strip vital health care funds for 9/11 first responders from the federal budget after Elon Musk and Donald Trump nuked a stopgap spending plan, threatening a government shutdown. Firemen were able to fall […]

1. The Economy 2  Immigration 3. Health 4. White voters went up as a share of the electorate 5. Trump expanded his coalition, driven by men. 6. Women turned out as a higher share, but not enough for Harris to win. 7 America is not for a woman to be president. 8. Ticket-splitting happened 9. […]

For the first time in modern history the majority of Americans now believes that the Republican Party best represents the interests of the working class and the poor, and that the Democratic Party is the party of the wealthy and the elites. Dems support in three of its crucial constituencies: minorities, the young and urban […]

The 2024 presidential election has folks talking about was which demographic groups had drifted from the Democratic Party.  But, Black women rallied behind  Kamala Harris. The Democratic nominee earned an overwhelming majority of their votes, including in swing states like Georgia, Nevada and Michigan, even as other groups shifted dramatically to the right compared to […]

Donald Trump won big, in solid blue New York Harris had the worst statewide performance for a Democrat since 1988. In New York City, her margin of victory was 17 points lower than Joe Biden’s in 2020. Faced with a global economic crisis, rather than work on people’s pain, the Democratic establishment helped rescue the […]

Dr. Michael Lyde is the CEO of Lyde Enterprises and he develops educational and training solutions based on best practices that leverage the assets of organizations. Why did black men vote for Trump.  How about gay black men? About 3 in 10 Black men under age 45 went for Trump, roughly double the share he […]